Victoria’s Secret moms are called out for being too thin

Four of last night’s Victoria’s Secret Angels are moms. Miranda Kerr and Doutzen Kroes both gave birth in January, Adriana Lima has a 2-year-old at home and Alessandra Ambrosio had a daughter in 2008.

According to Ed Razek, chief marketing officer for Victoria’s Secret’s parent company, the fact that the women are moms is a good thing for their modeling careers.

“It’s true, a number of our models have come back from having a baby more beautiful than ever. I know that some of them have used the show date as a goal to get back in shape and, I think, having a baby has given them a sense of confidence, an ‘I can do anything’ attitude that is reflected on the runway,” he told the Associated Press.

Kroes goes on to tell the AP how “empowering” it was to “mold her new figure into shape.”

Well, good for her.

Janice D’Arcy at the Washington Post calls the whole story “unintentionally hilarious,” pulling out quotes such as:

“Motherhood hasn’t slowed them down at all: [Miranda] Kerr even got to wear the coveted diamond-covered bra. ‘I was asked to do it after I gave birth,’ said Kerr. ‘That was awesome. It’s such an honor.’ ”

But some bloggers are calling the women out for simply being too skinny.

Lima even admitted in the run-up to the show she works out twice a day, drinks only protein shakes for nine days and nothing at all for 12 hours beforehand.

“No liquids at all so you dry out, sometimes you can lose up to eight pounds just from that,” she told the Telegraph.

Um, that’s not healthy.

Chanel Iman countered by telling Modelina she had to bulk up by 15 pounds for the show. She did so by eating lots and lots of barbecue.

E! Online isn’t buying it that the models are all barbecue-filled curves though. The entertainment site is saying they’re just too skinny.

“(W)e can’t help but remember the days when models like Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and Gisele Bündchen took over the catwalk with their curves. Don’t get us wrong, they still made us question our meal choices, but they were also voluptuous. And now, it seems like the wings on these newbies are literally going to whisk them away,” they wrote.

Entertainment Weekly agreed, but was not quite as nice about it calling the women out for “protruding clavicles” and mocking the choice of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way to accompany them.